# Martin Luther

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- Book: [Martin Luther](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-stanford/martin-luther) ([Martin Luther.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-stanford/martin-luther.md))
- Authors: [Peter Stanford](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-stanford)
- Publisher: Hodder Faith
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7362-168-8
- Published: 2017-03-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'A compelling biography of one of the greatest men of the modern age. Stanford is particularly brilliant on the tensions inside Luther's private and spiritual life. This is a very fine book, written with a flourish.' Melvyn Bragg The 31st of October 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther pinning his 95 'Theses' - or reform proposals - to the door of his local university church in Wittenberg. Most scholars now agree that the details of this eye-catching gesture are more legend than hammer and nails, but what is certainly true is that on this day (probably in a letter to his local Archbishop in Mainz), the Augustinian Friar and theologian issued an outspokenly blunt challenge to his own Catholic Church to reform itself from within - especially over the sale of 'indulgences' - which ultimately precipitated a huge religious and political upheaval right across Europe and divided mainstream Christianity ever after. A new, popular biography from journalist Peter Stanford, looking at Martin Luther from within his Catholic context, examining his actual aims for Catholicism as well as his enduring legacy - and where he might fit within the church today. 'Peter Stanford makes the life of Luther into a thrilling narrative, told from a modern Catholic perspective' Antonia Fraser